legend of dragoon without dragoon

[matthewchrono]

Hi there. I'm playing Legend of Dragoon perfectly in the emulator (I mean it, perfectly), but I can't transform into a dragoon. If I do, the emulator allows me to perform an action (attack, o use magic), it execute the option, and then it hangs. Or, the menu comes bach abot five minutes later. Man, this is ANNOYING. I cannot fight like this! And, if by any chance, I transform into a dragoon an the emulator doesn't hang, it hangs in the next fight, or boss fight. But the interesting thing is: this happens only in disc 2 and 3, not in disc 1. I've tried 2 images of cd 2 and 3, with the same result.
I've also tried using a PAL BIOS. This solve the problem of the game hanging in the first screen, the playstation logo. But in the fights, the result is EXACTLY THE SAME. I CANNOT BEAT LLOYD LIKE THIS, OR ANY OTHER BOSS, WITHOUT HOURS OF TRAINING BEFORE EACH FIGHT!.
The rest, like the sound, the videos, the graphics, all is fine. I didn't notice anyone having this problem before (yes, I red ALL the threads of Legend of Dragoon), so, could it be my hardware?
By the way, I'm using Psx Emulator 1.6, because the game didn't run in the later versions (1.7, 1.8, 1.9), and the previos versions doesn't work on my computer, none of them.

[Ultima]

Stealing a quote from someone in another forum...

Given the bare minimum information you're giving me, I've come to the conclusion that your problems are caused by the electric current that's keeping your heart beating jumping into the keyboard and frying something.

Honestly, the announcement up above has a link that clearly tells you what information you have to include, and what information you might want to include along with that.

[matthewchrono]

Yes, I saw the compatibility list, and I knew that the game wasn't going to work in further versions, I just thought that may be my problem was only a bad configuration of version 1.6, the one I'm using.
By the way, the game DOES work in version 1.9. You can't even pass the playstation logo, but you can get to the menu of the game in a previos version (like 1.6), make a quicksave, copy the quicksave into the [saves] folder in version 1.9, and as soon as you insert the image in version 1.9, read the quicksave. That way, the game works.
But, the thing I don't get is: why there are A LOT of people who can play the game, and I can't? IT HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH MY HARDWARE?

[Ultima]

This is your final pre-warning before we start piling on your warning level. READ THE ANNOUNCEMENT UP ABOVE. Heck, you obviously didn't read the Important Information forum, I'm not even sure why I'm being this lenient on you.

[matthewchrono]

Ok, sorry if I bothered, I'm still new here and I don't handle the english very well. I will guess then that games that doesn't work in the latest version, should not be mentioned again, right?
If so, sorry.

[Truth Unknown]

Sorry, but we are strict with are rules. But it seems you are having difficulties reading English thus you don't understand where we are coming from. What we are asking is that you provide information on the game, the game id, what settings are used in pSX, what BIOS did you dump from, what is used in your computer (such as operating system, and computer hardware), and a detailed description of your problem. You already have a good description of the problem, we just need the rest to better help you.

EDIT: Well I'm guessing that you are from Argentina. All this based on your @yahoo.com.ar suffix on your email. I wonder if someone can help translate on the problem.

[Ultima]

Grr... his English... it seems perfectly fine to me, which is the only reason I responded that way O.o (on top of the fact that I was having a rough day yesterday, but I guess that's not a real excuse)

@matthewchrono: If a game is listed there, it's still fine to provide a compatibility report. What we absolutely need is as Truth Unknown says. The required information is in the thread linked to from the announcement above...

[Gamesoul Master]

"If you are going to make a game compatibility report, make sure you have already read the IMPORTANT: Things to Remember when Posting Reports thread first! Thanks."

[patrickp]

TBH someone who really has a poor command of English might have a problem with the IMPORTANT: Things to Remember when Posting Reports thread first! Thanks thread, but matthewchrono's English is way not that bad.

matthewchrono, there are two reasons why you should provide the information asked for when you post on this forum. The first is that we can't help you if you don't provide the required information, and the second is that smegforbrain and Ultima compile compatibility lists from the the information posted here, which helps with the development of the emulator and provides information for other people with game problems.

The bottom line is that no-one gets paid for this: pSX Author, the sole developer of pSX Emulator, does so in his own time and at his own expense (he's certainly had to get quite a bit of kit, software, etc together to do this); the admins administer voluntarily, and everyone who writes ancilliary software for the emulator, or maintains associated data sources, does so on the same basis as pSX Author - in their own time, and providing any webspace etc needed themselves. Even people like me hang around and try to be helpful just because we think it's worth it.

So, you see, when people come on the forum, and can't be bothered even to put a little bit of effort in themselves, it doesn't tend to generate a particularly sympathetic response.

[matthewchrono]

Ok, I'll start all over again. The truth is that there's a lot to tell, and I didn't want to bother you writing too much. In any case, here it goes:
I'm playing legend of dragoon, CD 3. The problems starts at CD 2.
When I transform into a dragoon, after any action I make, the game just freezes. The characters move, if the background is one of the dragoon's background it looks fine, but I never get the command menu again, or I get it after for or five minutes (that's the longest I've waited). And, if by any chance, I transform into a dragoon an the emulator doesn't hang, it hangs in the next fight, or boss fight. This doesn't happen in CD 1.
I'm Using:
-Two BIOS: Scph1001.bin, and the PAL BIOS Scph7502.bin . The PAL BIOS I only used it to gain access to the menu screen, since the game freezes at the playstation logo (I've tried the methods I've found in various threads with this problem, but no one worked). The game works with the PAL BIOS, but the video works a little discontinous. I'm trying to say that it looks more like a succession of pictures, than like a video. The video is discontinous, but not slow. The rest of the time, I use the scph1001.bin BIOS, because the video works more continously.
-The game ID of the CD 3 is SCUS945.85, the ID of the CD 2 is SCUS945.84, and the ID of CD 1 is SCUS944.91. I don't have the CD 4 yet, I got all the images one by one from different sources.
-I didn't create the images, I just got them and start using them.
every image has the same: four files, each one with the name "the Legend of Dragoon cdx" x is the number of the CD. The extensions are .CCD, .sub, .cue and .img. The img file is the biggest one, so I always select that to play.
-I'm using version 1.6 and 1.9, and the same configuration for both, wich is the following:
-I use the keyboard to play.
-Sound: I use my sound device, sis 7018, because I obtained a little bit better quality. The frecuency is the same as emulated machine, I didn't touch the latencies; I selected reverb, and interpolate, because sync sound makes the game work slower.
-I selected Bilinear interpolation and Frame skipping. In Full Screen and in windowed screen I didn't select VSync, because the game works slower and very discontinous. I selected Pause when focused, I didn't selected to show status icons nor sleep when idle. Both PAL and NTSC resolutions in full screen are the default ones.
-I never used my Cd drive, so I didn't touch the configuration in any version of the emulator.
-To use version 1.9, you can get to the menu of the game in a previos version (like 1.6), make a quicksave, copy the quicksave into the [saves] folder in version 1.9, and as soon as you insert the image in version 1.9, read the quicksave.
And my computer has the following:
-Windows 98.
-Processor AMD Duron 1800, 1.2 GHz.
-256 MB of R.A.M., but it is sheared with the video card.
-I don't understand much of video cards, so I'll tell you what the Windows tells me and translate it: Sis 730, onboard, Frecuency of upgrading optimal.
-Sound Card Sis 7018.
-One hard drive with 60 GB (where I use the emulator) and the other with 40 GB (where the images are), both of them with 7200 r.p.m.
-Motherboard PCChips M810LR7. Frontside bus width 64 bits, 106 MHz of real clock, 211 effective clock.
-I don't use antivirus while playing (it's not even loaded in memory), I use a program that frees the R.A.M. when possible (freeram), and a program called "Process Viewer", that
So, I think Thant's all. I hope this thread is not as long as something annoying to read, because well, that's exactly what I try not to be. By the way, I'm not good at writing english, my brother is . I'm the one who reads the forum, so I'll do a better effort next times.
If by any chance you read other threads of me, in those I'm not using this images, so don't worry.
I hope I've told at least everything needed this time.
Thanks for reading.

[Gamesoul Master]

One piece of advice... *ALWAYS* use the .ccd or .cue files to play a game. Always always always. If there is a .img file involved, use the .ccd file whenever possible. If a .bin file is involved, use the .cue file.

Also, try the -r switch after doing this, just to try. It might work out for you, though I've had no problems with the video in the game.

SCPH7502 sucks... try using one titled SCPH1002 or DTLH3002.

If you are comfortable with it and know how, try overclocking your processor to 1.3 GHz or so...

If you can, find a setting that determines how much RAM is allocated to the video card... and lower it to about 16 MB. And lower your desktop color depth to "16 bit (High Color)" or "Medium (16 bit)"... whichever your computer calls it (I've seen both).

Try a program I was using years ago called "Scitech Display Doctor 6.53". Back when I was running Windows 98 and my ATI Rage Pro 16, this program helped me out a lot. Because it's obsolete now, it's free (and unsupported). You can get it here. I definitely recommend it to anybody running hardware from the win2k era or older. Also, here are the registry codes for it, which are supplied straight from Scitech (since the product is now free and unsupported).

[Ultima]

lol that's interesting, I used to use SDD also on my old P1 133MHz computer with a S3 Savage video... thingy (I'm not sure I can even call it a video card). Heh, it sure did save that computer for a while.

[Truth Unknown]

matthewchrono, it is clear that you do not own this game and acquired images by illegal means. Locked.